7-jS noctttid.e. 



rcniform olive-brown defined by dark brown, small, elliptical, 

 placed on the dark area ; a slight brown and olive bar from middle 

 of costa ; a triangular yellowish white postmedial patch on costa ; 

 the postmedial line indistinct, dark, arising at vein 6, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line yellowish, hardly traceable 

 except towards tornus to which it is bent outwards ; some black 

 points on termen sometimes present ; cilia yellow mixed with some 

 brown. Hind wing with the basal half yellow, the terminal half 

 suffused with brown ; cilia yellowish at base and tips ; the under- 

 side uniform yellow. 



$ . Fore wing with the basal area more olive leaving a yellow 

 patch on costa ; hind wing wholly suffused with brown, the under- 

 side with brown discoidal spot and terminal hand. 



Ah. 1. $ . Head, thorax, and fore wing paler yellow, the last 

 with narrower brown band before the postmedial line and the 

 terminal area yellow. 



Hub. Queensland, Townsville (Dodd). 1 $ , Peak Downs, 1 J 

 type clarissa, Grayndah, 1 5 type, Brisbane (Turner), 1 ^ ; X. 

 Australia, Port Darwin (Li/ell), 1 ? ; W. Australia, Sherlock R. 

 (Clements), 4 $ ; N. S. Wales, Parramatta (Rai/nor), 2 tf . Exp, 

 20-24 millim. 



6138. Tarache thapsina. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 21.) 



Hijela thapsina, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxvii. p. 112 (1902). 



Head, teguloe, and patagia yellow ; thorax red-brown ; antennae 

 brown ; fore tibiae and tarsi brown ringed with yellow ; abdomen 

 yellow dorsally tinged with red-hrown, ventrally whitish. Fore 

 wing yellow, the terminal area red-brown, its inner edge obliquely 

 curved and more or less angled inwards beyond upper an<_de of cell. 

 Hind wing red-brown, the base and cell yellow ; cilia yellow mixed 

 witli red-brown at base ; the underside orange-yellow, the costal 

 area irrorated with red-brown, diffused curved postmedial and 

 terminal bands. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with postmedial dark point on costa, a j-ellowish 

 minutely waved postmedial line from cell to inner margin near 

 inner edge of the dark area, and a yellowish subterminal line ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; 

 underside of hind wing Avithout markings. 



Hah. Queensland, Townsville (Dodd), 1 S ', X. Australia, 

 Alexandria (Stalker), 1 J , 3 $ . Exp. 20 millim. Type f in Coll. 

 Turner. 



6139. Tarache guttifera. (Plate CLXXII. figs. 22 tf, 23 $.) 

 ■no guttifera, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 26 (1874). 

 6 . Head and thorax golden yellow ; palpi Avhite. black at tips ; 



